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Chicago examiner vol xl no 122,-^a m pricf onf cfnt delivered Â»Â» carrier r ixiv_.c uhl x,i>i i . 30 c(!nts er montn . tuesday Chicago may 13 1913 tuesday registered in u s patent office japan bases alien fight upon insult to her honor avoids charge of treaty violation in the california land act wilson and bryan to make no further objections to the bill becoming a law of the state chinda's protest to be given to the public â€¢ state department comes to the j conclusion that pact with the orientals was not broken england has much more dras tic law excluding japanese washington may 12 â€” the Chicago examiner ascer tained to-day the following definite facts relating to the contro ' versy between the united states and ] japan over the california alien land : bill first â€” the japanese protest was not | based on the claim that the pro j posed legislation constitutes a vio j lation of the existing treaty be 1 tween the two nations but on the i still loftier ground that it amounts j to an insult to the national honor . i of japan second â€” president wilson and sec retary bryan stoutly maintain that , the ydntemplated law is entirely in keeping with the treaty obligations j ' i i lie united states and will not huervene again if governor john son sees fit to allow the law to become effective great britain discriminates third . â€” legal experts of the state j jdepartment discover that the brit j ish government in australia and j â– victoria not only discriminates i against the japanese but puts ! ... them in the same category with ! vthe pacific island blacks which is far more drastic than any meas ure yet contemplated by the peo ple of the pacific coast fourth â€” the text of the protest | made by baron chinda will be made public here and at tokio j simultaneously as soon as the ar 1 rangements can be completed president wilson and the officials j of the war and navy departments , re awaiting with concern the next â€¢. ftep to be taken by japan if the caii ! lbrnia bill is allowed to become ef ' jbctive no reply has been received to the president's telegram asking governor johnson to veto the meas ure on account of the stipulated unwill ingness of the administration to do more ; than announce the attitude of the federal ' authorities it is confidently expected by ' all concerned that the bill will be signed i and become effective before the close ! of another day Â» i i no treaty violation to those who talked with the president . to-day he supported the contention of the state department that the proposed law does not constitute a violation of i the treaty he even went further and said the legislation was founded on tlie j treaty obligations the president's argument is that the california legislature proposes explicitly to grant the present residents who are not eligible to citizenship the right which are granted to them l>y the treaty the information that the japanese are | thinking more about their natioual honor in the protest than the treaty obliga tions also came from the white house it was explained that the resentment expressed through ambassador obiuda by the japanese was a seeming effort to discriminate against them on the ground of an alleged ineligibility to citizenship in commuting upon this phase of the controversy state j department officials pointed out that be attitude of japan toward this countj was at least unusual since the laws of victoria and australia are far more arringent the common wealth immigration act and regulations exclude from australia all asiatics and pacific island blacks students only admitted the only concessions made are that jap anese and chinese of the student and tourist class who carry passports are ! admitted for a period of twelve months this regulation of which there is no j ' complaint of record here makes the call j here's the second mystery of picture what is the title chs picture is odd we are not surprised that you wonder why it is here â– this is the answer the examiner has purchased and will publish a serial story more interesting than any chi cago has had in years this picture typifies the 6tory based on the picture what in your judgment is the title or what ought to be the title of this story five dollars in gold will be paid to each of the five best letters received in answer to this question get busy and deliver it the competition will close at 4 o'clock p m saturday may 17 all answers must be in the examiner office by that hour address your letters to peize fiction editor Chicago examiner bryan opposes all wars in speech says he would not have accepted office if he expected one washington may 12 secretary of state william jennings bryan made a rather significant speech to-night at the banquet given in honor of the visiting british canadian and australian dele gates of the american conference arrang ing for the centennial celebratiou of the treaty of ghent i made up my mind before i accepted the offer it the secretaryship of state declared mr bryan that i would not take the office if i thought there was to be a war during my tenure when i say this i am confident that i shall have no cause to change my view for we know no cause to-day that cannot be settled better by arbitration than by war i believe there will be no war while 1 am secretary of state and 1 believe there will be no war so long as i live 1 hope wp have seen the last great war johnson unchanged by wilson's appeal walsh suit to test marriage of mrs smith j first wife of millionaire threat ens to annul wedding to chi cago social leader asks part of fortune wyoming woman declares former husband's wealth was founded on her hotel business mrs francis drexel smith walsh a vividly remembered figure in chicago's most exclusive society for the brilliance j of her debut as miss charlotte silsbee for her marriages and for hei divorce from francis drexel smith for ber fortunes and the way she spent them bids fair to be remembered also in con nection with dramatic events that hap pened yesterday at sheridan wyo mrs walsh may find herself without a hus band e h walsh president of the first national bank of sheridan was a penni less cowpuncher before his first marriage then he married the owner of a little hotel at butte mont mrs josephine walsh who originally owned that hotel yesterday demanded a division of profits and the profits have | mounted to the millions of dollars threatens divorce fight in lieu of a division mrs josephne j walsh said she would take steps to annul the marriage of her sometime husband to i the brilliant society woman of Chicago i and philadelphia mrs francis drexel smith the walsh fortune was founded on the money from my hotel said mrs josephine walsh i am entitled to my share of it and i shall remain in sheridan until i get it " mrs walsh no 1 went into her for 1 mer husband's bank at sheridan to pre sent her claims there w-as a violent scene which ended only when she was ejected from the bank it was then she quite undaunted but hotly indignant made the threat that she would annul her husband's second marriage i can do it she declared i can prove that he was really my husband when he married mrs smith i can prove that he was never really divorced from me that he obtained hi decree by perjury while i was iu Chicago fortune has m itiplied walsh ls said to have made a large for tune with the money he got from bis first wife's hotel then he came to Chicago and met among others the fascinating mrs smith subsequently mrs smith got a divorce at colorado springs colo and eight days afterward married mr walsh his fortune had multiplied he had formed some sort of financial alliance i with malcolm moncrieffe of england and | wyoming it was a little less than a j year ago in july 1912 that walsh mar | ried mrs smith they have one of the finest cattle ranches in the west and their home itself is said to be one of the finest country ' homes in america saves life by killing grizzly with auto doctor wraps robe around beast's head and f-uns over it walden colo may 22 when a huge grizzly bear rushed at dr j a dungan of this city while he was mak ing a visit in the mountains yesterday he saved tiimself from possible death by throwing a lap robe over the animal's head and then ramming lt with his auto mobile killing it instantly the doctor was at the end of a road at the foot of a steep hill and was about to stop the car to go to a ranch fur ther up the valley when the bear charged him it got only a mouthful of lap robe the doctor wrapped the rest of the robe arouud the bear's head and while it wrestled with the robe iu the dirt he ran over it vincent astor has sudden recovery swelling in his throat subsides and its serious nature denied poughkeepsie n t may 12â€”re turning to ferncliffe his estate near rhinebeck suffering with tonsilitis yes terday vincent astor surprised his neigh bors by appeariug early to-day about his place he spent most of the day in inspecting his experimental farm and giving direc tions to his workmen it is said that his throat trouble is not of a serious nature the inflammation in his throat is much reduced though it has not entirely disappeared help england's trying to annex u s says author novelist learns that andrew car negie is to be made a duke if j he carries out plot i , soecial cable ta the examiner london may 12 miss lillian scott j i troy a novelist and magazine writer from j i san francisco who interested herself in i obtaining the release from prison of miss j ; zelie emerson the suffragette from ; america has written a letter to senator o'gorman which contains some extra i ordinary charges against andrew carne gie and other noted americans in it miss troy makes the extraordinary allegation that the annexation of the united states to england is the ultimate object of the peace movement promoted by mr carnegie and others the accusa tions by miss troy became known here ' to-day she names elihu root and john hay as j prime movers in behalf of the peace j propaganda since the inauguration of which she declares the relations between the united states and germany and the j united states and japan have become | strained miss troy suggests it is to epgland's interest to see the united states weak ened in conflict with germany or japan j she asserts that while theodore boose j velt was in africa the duke of con naught's aid suggested he should influence the united states to hand the philip pines over to japan that the idea of the arbitration treaties was not taft's but that of carnegie and king edward who sent it to america to be labeled made in the u s a miss troy also asserted that king ed ward offered andrew carnegie a duke ! dom if he should bring about the annexa : i tion of the united states to england and ! j that roosevelt's guildhall speech was j written partly by sir edward grey she j further declared that the purpose of | haldane'l visit to germany in 1912 was ; to effect an agreement between england i and germany to smash the monroe doe \ trine washington may 12 1n answer to i the charges andrew carnegie replied i here to-night yes i was offered a dukedom by the i late king edward if i would bring b>o_t | the annexation of the united states but j i replied that i was an american citi > zeu and every citizen of the united states | was a king honore palmer is urged for embassy lewis asked to indorse rum for bel gium or switzerland washington may 12 the name ot honore palmer of Chicago has been sug gested to the state department and to senator james hamilton lewis of illi nois for appointment as minister to bel gium or switzerland no definite in dorsement of mr palmer has been made by senator lewis and bis name will not be considered formally at the white house until such recommendation is made robert n lewis head master of lake forest academy was suggested to sen ator lewis for secretary of an embassy abroad despite the announced intention of the postoffice department not to disturb postmaster campbell at Chicago there are four candidates for the place orva g williams j p byrnes dixon c williams and e j glackin direct election ratified washington may 12 with the final ratification by wisconsin of the con stitutional amendment for the direct elec tion of l'nited states senators the neces sary number of states has been reached to make the amendment effective secre tary bryan will probably make a formal announcement to that effect to-morrow notice of wisconsin's ratification was made formally to the state department to-day straphangers gleam of hope up to council | plan contemplates 600 new cars and shortening time of journeys by 20 per cent ask city guarantee return committee named to pass upon requests and promises merged service may begin july 1 there is hope for the straphangers \ members of the city council decided last night to take one week to think over in dorsement of a measure for the merger of i Chicago surface traction lines the plan ! provides for iâ€”through1 â€” through routes everywhere with a five cent fare 2 â€” elimination of loops and switch backs downtown 3 â€” six hundred new cars 4 â€” city guarantee of minimum rate of interest action of council came upon a resolu tion introduced by alderman block pro viding : that the city council of the city of Chicago favors the enactment of a law permitting a general merger of the surface street car companies with such safeguards as will protect the best in terests of the city action deferred a week alderman block urged that the resolu tion be passed at once in order tbat an accompanying bill may be introduced into the state legislature with a chance of passage at the present session the resolution says that the interests of the city should be safeguarded said alderman charles e merriam this is the first i have heard of the bill and i think action should be deferred one week other aldermen expressed a desire to study the bill and it was decided to defer action in accordance with the suggestion of alderman merriam the feature of the proposal wblch be wilders the aldermen is the demand thai the city guarantee to the operating trust a return on the combined capital of the companies sl34,ooo,ooo equal to that be ing earned at present and the anticipated earnings of the future committee to pass on merits this will mean guaranteeing a present return of about 6.3 per cent with a grad ual increase to approximately 7 per cent at the end of the franchise grant in 1927 in return the companies offered to sur render the 10 per cent on ncw construc tion and the o per cent brokerage on new capital s granted by the 1907 ordinance a subcommittee consisting of aldermen block capitain twigg bergen fisher donahue and william 3 healy was ap pointed to pass upon the merits of the requests and promises of the traction managers the memorandum was presented by leonard a busby president of the chi cago city railways company and w w gurley general counsel of the Chicago railways company strike a responsive chord the companies struck a responsive chord when they recommended that the reuewal fund which they nave set apart according to the 1907 ordinances and the city's traction funds which now total 12,000,000 be invested in bonds earning 5 per cent instead of being left in the banks to draw 2 per cent there is no present authority of law or ordinance for the investment of these funds it is expected that the operating agree ment will be effected within a month and that unified operation of the surface lines will begin before july 1 fashion's source traced to hades pastors declare that modern dress comes straight from the underworld xew york may 12 turn some of your zeal toward reforming dre3s and you will not only gain the vote more quickly but you will help advance the morals of our city ." this was the admonition given to the suffragfsts by the rev christian f reismer pnstor of grace m e church in speaking on the progressive west erner dr refsmer deplored the pres entday styles for women in eastern cities and asked what right paris bad with its non-belief in a personal god to set the styles for a christian nation like ours we had better take our styles from the girl who lives in gods-out-of-doors in the broad west than to go to thc underworld of paris " he said the slit skirt the airy stockings with low shoes and tlie painted cheeks create a shallow artificiality in woman and ap peal to the lowest in man washington may 12 1t makes me shudder the cance3 i see going on be tween young men and girls nowadays said the rev john compton bell pastor of the metropolitan baptist church to day they are a part of the new fangled fashions that contribute their share of danger to the morals of our people we import our fashions from london vthat gets them from paris that ln turn imports them straight from h l it is even getting so that we leave out lon don and paris becomes the middle man between us and the devil suffrage foe pins colors to nightie friedmann cure is called fraud ! university of wisconsin expert says german broke promise to give u s serum madison wis may 12 dr m p ravenel head of the state lab oratory professor of bacteriology at the university of wisconsin and a director of the national association for the preven tion of tuberculosis who returned to-day from washington where he observed the patients receiving the friedmann cure to-night denounced the remedy as the most gigantic and preposterous fraud of a generation he declared thc experimental cases had j shown practically no results he charged that friedmann has broken his promise to the united states government wherein he engaged to furnish the government a quantity of the serum for experimental purposes that all the government has been able to get is one drop which the doctors cultivated themselves and that friedmann absolutely ignores government letters sent to him â– dr ravenel claims that a newspaper syndicate received 1,000,000 for exploit ing the cure and that dr friedmann had charged exorbitant fees for administering the serum several ranging from 1.000 to 5,000 new york may 12 dr maurice a sturm to-day filed in the supreme court mwo actions against dr friedrich f friedmann in one he asks the court to compel dr friedmann to pay him 10,000 for services rendered him on march 23 1913 and april 29 1913 in the other dr friedmann and his brother dr arthur c h friedmann are named as defendants but no relief is asked from arthur c h friedmann dr sturm alleges in this action that he is entitled to 100,000 from dr friedmann as the result of an agreement with him to be paid 5 per cent of the sum dr friedmann received for the sale of the tuberculosis cure 14,000 more barbers quit watch 12 police heads in crime trust inquiry ! investigation of protection of or ganized criminals by hoyne ' and mayor harrison leads to department officials and poli ticians who shielded the band grand jury is called to break up system | tribute of 300,000 paid by crooks for freedom mayor after warning detectives con fers with prosecutors on evi dence to be submitted to-day twelve high police officers and politicians of some prominence are being watched hy the state's attorney their alleged connection with the farming out of the privilege to com mit crime is under investigation by the grand jury if one of them attempts to leara town he will be arrested these men know that they are under surveil lance and some of them have ar ranged for bondsmen already state's attorney maclay hoyne and mayor carter h harrison united yesterday to dissolve the alli ance which hoyne says he can prove to exist between criminal police and political interests hoyne showed the figures on losses aggregating 280,000 sustained by Chicago citizens at the hands of swindlers hoyne pointed to the fact that these figures represented only those victims who had squealed > and he pointed to the tact that no â– arrest has been recorded in any o'^fr ; the cases and that not a dollar of the 1 money has been recovered mayor asks why mayor harrison brought in his po lic heads and asked them why hoyne showed evidence tbat crim inals in the last three years have paid 300,000 for protection again the police heads faced tl mayor's question hoyne declared that the decks were cleared for the sweeping inves tigation which his staff has reparcd to make into protected vice and crime in Chicago the mayor prom ised every possible kind of assist ance __ the may grand jury is organizefl and to-day that body will take the task of aidine the state's att^ffr^^h uey in his effort to clear the city from the organized vice ring whic has operated at will from the preliminary facts given . to mayor harrison yesterday it be ! came clear that the grand jury will ! be busy to a degree without prece dent i trail leads to police i mr hoyne is to ask for immediate i indictments of men who through po j litical affiliations have been able to ! peddle the privilege of preying upon the city to safe blowers burglars pickpockets swindlers of all kinds and keepers of dives and clearing houses for stolen property with the indictment and arrest of these men the grand jury will be put upon the trail that is expected to lead into the doors of station houses and to the offices of police captains from the dives of the men who are recognized as the heads of the crime | trust to trace the course of graft to i the pockets or bank accounts of : corrupt police officials is one of the hardest tasks that could be set be | fore the grand jury as proven by ! the difficulties district attorney whitman had to overcome in new york before he was able to expose the protection of crime and vice by the grafting police inspectors and captains hoyne sure of evidence but mr hoyne is convinced from the evidence he has already obtained that the crime trust and the police have worked together and he is go ing to try to prove it if the evfr dence is sufficient to justify the re turn of true bills by the grand jury the criminal trials of those indicted will give the state wider opportun ities to drag out the secrets of the - underworld and expose the proflÂ»o tion afforded by the po'iice before taking his evidence before photograph of barney bertsche held in the investigation of chi cago's crime trust taken when he was arraigned in the englewood branch of the municipal court yesterday bertsche became angry in court and sought to cover up his face to avoid photographers 6n 2d page 4th column ll Chicago amd vicinity gen i â– - erally fair tuesday and wednesday ll_lse cooler tuesday moderate north jg x~^Â§?i west shifting to northeast winds w - rr oge of temperature yesterday : l k highest 74 h7lc_-l ? lowest 48 lja *~â€”- - * average 61 i -Â»â– â€” ?\- if you are going away for the summer or part of the summer why not rent that vacant room to the honest young man or young woman who would be glad to get it ? j looking for rooms | there are thousands of people in Chicago looking for rooms many of these are finding just the sort of rooms looking for roomers they want through the want ad section of the exam iner desirable rooms advertised in the examiner bring desirable roomers those who have not yet discovered the quick way the sure way to find good rooms will discover it by read ' ing the want ad section of the â€” m mem i b ? lofiÃŸ_?^s*_____b *-- -' * fttca|||||pmmntr main so o o the examiner's sworn statement of circulation for april average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed through the mails or otherwise to paid subscribers during the month of april daily examiner . 240,127 sunday examiner 609,192

Chicago examiner vol xl no 122,-^a m pricf onf cfnt delivered Â»Â» carrier r ixiv_.c uhl x,i>i i . 30 c(!nts er montn . tuesday Chicago may 13 1913 tuesday registered in u s patent office japan bases alien fight upon insult to her honor avoids charge of treaty violation in the california land act wilson and bryan to make no further objections to the bill becoming a law of the state chinda's protest to be given to the public â€¢ state department comes to the j conclusion that pact with the orientals was not broken england has much more dras tic law excluding japanese washington may 12 â€” the Chicago examiner ascer tained to-day the following definite facts relating to the contro ' versy between the united states and ] japan over the california alien land : bill first â€” the japanese protest was not | based on the claim that the pro j posed legislation constitutes a vio j lation of the existing treaty be 1 tween the two nations but on the i still loftier ground that it amounts j to an insult to the national honor . i of japan second â€” president wilson and sec retary bryan stoutly maintain that , the ydntemplated law is entirely in keeping with the treaty obligations j ' i i lie united states and will not huervene again if governor john son sees fit to allow the law to become effective great britain discriminates third . â€” legal experts of the state j jdepartment discover that the brit j ish government in australia and j â– victoria not only discriminates i against the japanese but puts ! ... them in the same category with ! vthe pacific island blacks which is far more drastic than any meas ure yet contemplated by the peo ple of the pacific coast fourth â€” the text of the protest | made by baron chinda will be made public here and at tokio j simultaneously as soon as the ar 1 rangements can be completed president wilson and the officials j of the war and navy departments , re awaiting with concern the next â€¢. ftep to be taken by japan if the caii ! lbrnia bill is allowed to become ef ' jbctive no reply has been received to the president's telegram asking governor johnson to veto the meas ure on account of the stipulated unwill ingness of the administration to do more ; than announce the attitude of the federal ' authorities it is confidently expected by ' all concerned that the bill will be signed i and become effective before the close ! of another day Â» i i no treaty violation to those who talked with the president . to-day he supported the contention of the state department that the proposed law does not constitute a violation of i the treaty he even went further and said the legislation was founded on tlie j treaty obligations the president's argument is that the california legislature proposes explicitly to grant the present residents who are not eligible to citizenship the right which are granted to them l>y the treaty the information that the japanese are | thinking more about their natioual honor in the protest than the treaty obliga tions also came from the white house it was explained that the resentment expressed through ambassador obiuda by the japanese was a seeming effort to discriminate against them on the ground of an alleged ineligibility to citizenship in commuting upon this phase of the controversy state j department officials pointed out that be attitude of japan toward this countj was at least unusual since the laws of victoria and australia are far more arringent the common wealth immigration act and regulations exclude from australia all asiatics and pacific island blacks students only admitted the only concessions made are that jap anese and chinese of the student and tourist class who carry passports are ! admitted for a period of twelve months this regulation of which there is no j ' complaint of record here makes the call j here's the second mystery of picture what is the title chs picture is odd we are not surprised that you wonder why it is here â– this is the answer the examiner has purchased and will publish a serial story more interesting than any chi cago has had in years this picture typifies the 6tory based on the picture what in your judgment is the title or what ought to be the title of this story five dollars in gold will be paid to each of the five best letters received in answer to this question get busy and deliver it the competition will close at 4 o'clock p m saturday may 17 all answers must be in the examiner office by that hour address your letters to peize fiction editor Chicago examiner bryan opposes all wars in speech says he would not have accepted office if he expected one washington may 12 secretary of state william jennings bryan made a rather significant speech to-night at the banquet given in honor of the visiting british canadian and australian dele gates of the american conference arrang ing for the centennial celebratiou of the treaty of ghent i made up my mind before i accepted the offer it the secretaryship of state declared mr bryan that i would not take the office if i thought there was to be a war during my tenure when i say this i am confident that i shall have no cause to change my view for we know no cause to-day that cannot be settled better by arbitration than by war i believe there will be no war while 1 am secretary of state and 1 believe there will be no war so long as i live 1 hope wp have seen the last great war johnson unchanged by wilson's appeal walsh suit to test marriage of mrs smith j first wife of millionaire threat ens to annul wedding to chi cago social leader asks part of fortune wyoming woman declares former husband's wealth was founded on her hotel business mrs francis drexel smith walsh a vividly remembered figure in chicago's most exclusive society for the brilliance j of her debut as miss charlotte silsbee for her marriages and for hei divorce from francis drexel smith for ber fortunes and the way she spent them bids fair to be remembered also in con nection with dramatic events that hap pened yesterday at sheridan wyo mrs walsh may find herself without a hus band e h walsh president of the first national bank of sheridan was a penni less cowpuncher before his first marriage then he married the owner of a little hotel at butte mont mrs josephine walsh who originally owned that hotel yesterday demanded a division of profits and the profits have | mounted to the millions of dollars threatens divorce fight in lieu of a division mrs josephne j walsh said she would take steps to annul the marriage of her sometime husband to i the brilliant society woman of Chicago i and philadelphia mrs francis drexel smith the walsh fortune was founded on the money from my hotel said mrs josephine walsh i am entitled to my share of it and i shall remain in sheridan until i get it " mrs walsh no 1 went into her for 1 mer husband's bank at sheridan to pre sent her claims there w-as a violent scene which ended only when she was ejected from the bank it was then she quite undaunted but hotly indignant made the threat that she would annul her husband's second marriage i can do it she declared i can prove that he was really my husband when he married mrs smith i can prove that he was never really divorced from me that he obtained hi decree by perjury while i was iu Chicago fortune has m itiplied walsh ls said to have made a large for tune with the money he got from bis first wife's hotel then he came to Chicago and met among others the fascinating mrs smith subsequently mrs smith got a divorce at colorado springs colo and eight days afterward married mr walsh his fortune had multiplied he had formed some sort of financial alliance i with malcolm moncrieffe of england and | wyoming it was a little less than a j year ago in july 1912 that walsh mar | ried mrs smith they have one of the finest cattle ranches in the west and their home itself is said to be one of the finest country ' homes in america saves life by killing grizzly with auto doctor wraps robe around beast's head and f-uns over it walden colo may 22 when a huge grizzly bear rushed at dr j a dungan of this city while he was mak ing a visit in the mountains yesterday he saved tiimself from possible death by throwing a lap robe over the animal's head and then ramming lt with his auto mobile killing it instantly the doctor was at the end of a road at the foot of a steep hill and was about to stop the car to go to a ranch fur ther up the valley when the bear charged him it got only a mouthful of lap robe the doctor wrapped the rest of the robe arouud the bear's head and while it wrestled with the robe iu the dirt he ran over it vincent astor has sudden recovery swelling in his throat subsides and its serious nature denied poughkeepsie n t may 12â€”re turning to ferncliffe his estate near rhinebeck suffering with tonsilitis yes terday vincent astor surprised his neigh bors by appeariug early to-day about his place he spent most of the day in inspecting his experimental farm and giving direc tions to his workmen it is said that his throat trouble is not of a serious nature the inflammation in his throat is much reduced though it has not entirely disappeared help england's trying to annex u s says author novelist learns that andrew car negie is to be made a duke if j he carries out plot i , soecial cable ta the examiner london may 12 miss lillian scott j i troy a novelist and magazine writer from j i san francisco who interested herself in i obtaining the release from prison of miss j ; zelie emerson the suffragette from ; america has written a letter to senator o'gorman which contains some extra i ordinary charges against andrew carne gie and other noted americans in it miss troy makes the extraordinary allegation that the annexation of the united states to england is the ultimate object of the peace movement promoted by mr carnegie and others the accusa tions by miss troy became known here ' to-day she names elihu root and john hay as j prime movers in behalf of the peace j propaganda since the inauguration of which she declares the relations between the united states and germany and the j united states and japan have become | strained miss troy suggests it is to epgland's interest to see the united states weak ened in conflict with germany or japan j she asserts that while theodore boose j velt was in africa the duke of con naught's aid suggested he should influence the united states to hand the philip pines over to japan that the idea of the arbitration treaties was not taft's but that of carnegie and king edward who sent it to america to be labeled made in the u s a miss troy also asserted that king ed ward offered andrew carnegie a duke ! dom if he should bring about the annexa : i tion of the united states to england and ! j that roosevelt's guildhall speech was j written partly by sir edward grey she j further declared that the purpose of | haldane'l visit to germany in 1912 was ; to effect an agreement between england i and germany to smash the monroe doe \ trine washington may 12 1n answer to i the charges andrew carnegie replied i here to-night yes i was offered a dukedom by the i late king edward if i would bring b>o_t | the annexation of the united states but j i replied that i was an american citi > zeu and every citizen of the united states | was a king honore palmer is urged for embassy lewis asked to indorse rum for bel gium or switzerland washington may 12 the name ot honore palmer of Chicago has been sug gested to the state department and to senator james hamilton lewis of illi nois for appointment as minister to bel gium or switzerland no definite in dorsement of mr palmer has been made by senator lewis and bis name will not be considered formally at the white house until such recommendation is made robert n lewis head master of lake forest academy was suggested to sen ator lewis for secretary of an embassy abroad despite the announced intention of the postoffice department not to disturb postmaster campbell at Chicago there are four candidates for the place orva g williams j p byrnes dixon c williams and e j glackin direct election ratified washington may 12 with the final ratification by wisconsin of the con stitutional amendment for the direct elec tion of l'nited states senators the neces sary number of states has been reached to make the amendment effective secre tary bryan will probably make a formal announcement to that effect to-morrow notice of wisconsin's ratification was made formally to the state department to-day straphangers gleam of hope up to council | plan contemplates 600 new cars and shortening time of journeys by 20 per cent ask city guarantee return committee named to pass upon requests and promises merged service may begin july 1 there is hope for the straphangers \ members of the city council decided last night to take one week to think over in dorsement of a measure for the merger of i Chicago surface traction lines the plan ! provides for iâ€”through1 â€” through routes everywhere with a five cent fare 2 â€” elimination of loops and switch backs downtown 3 â€” six hundred new cars 4 â€” city guarantee of minimum rate of interest action of council came upon a resolu tion introduced by alderman block pro viding : that the city council of the city of Chicago favors the enactment of a law permitting a general merger of the surface street car companies with such safeguards as will protect the best in terests of the city action deferred a week alderman block urged that the resolu tion be passed at once in order tbat an accompanying bill may be introduced into the state legislature with a chance of passage at the present session the resolution says that the interests of the city should be safeguarded said alderman charles e merriam this is the first i have heard of the bill and i think action should be deferred one week other aldermen expressed a desire to study the bill and it was decided to defer action in accordance with the suggestion of alderman merriam the feature of the proposal wblch be wilders the aldermen is the demand thai the city guarantee to the operating trust a return on the combined capital of the companies sl34,ooo,ooo equal to that be ing earned at present and the anticipated earnings of the future committee to pass on merits this will mean guaranteeing a present return of about 6.3 per cent with a grad ual increase to approximately 7 per cent at the end of the franchise grant in 1927 in return the companies offered to sur render the 10 per cent on ncw construc tion and the o per cent brokerage on new capital s granted by the 1907 ordinance a subcommittee consisting of aldermen block capitain twigg bergen fisher donahue and william 3 healy was ap pointed to pass upon the merits of the requests and promises of the traction managers the memorandum was presented by leonard a busby president of the chi cago city railways company and w w gurley general counsel of the Chicago railways company strike a responsive chord the companies struck a responsive chord when they recommended that the reuewal fund which they nave set apart according to the 1907 ordinances and the city's traction funds which now total 12,000,000 be invested in bonds earning 5 per cent instead of being left in the banks to draw 2 per cent there is no present authority of law or ordinance for the investment of these funds it is expected that the operating agree ment will be effected within a month and that unified operation of the surface lines will begin before july 1 fashion's source traced to hades pastors declare that modern dress comes straight from the underworld xew york may 12 turn some of your zeal toward reforming dre3s and you will not only gain the vote more quickly but you will help advance the morals of our city ." this was the admonition given to the suffragfsts by the rev christian f reismer pnstor of grace m e church in speaking on the progressive west erner dr refsmer deplored the pres entday styles for women in eastern cities and asked what right paris bad with its non-belief in a personal god to set the styles for a christian nation like ours we had better take our styles from the girl who lives in gods-out-of-doors in the broad west than to go to thc underworld of paris " he said the slit skirt the airy stockings with low shoes and tlie painted cheeks create a shallow artificiality in woman and ap peal to the lowest in man washington may 12 1t makes me shudder the cance3 i see going on be tween young men and girls nowadays said the rev john compton bell pastor of the metropolitan baptist church to day they are a part of the new fangled fashions that contribute their share of danger to the morals of our people we import our fashions from london vthat gets them from paris that ln turn imports them straight from h l it is even getting so that we leave out lon don and paris becomes the middle man between us and the devil suffrage foe pins colors to nightie friedmann cure is called fraud ! university of wisconsin expert says german broke promise to give u s serum madison wis may 12 dr m p ravenel head of the state lab oratory professor of bacteriology at the university of wisconsin and a director of the national association for the preven tion of tuberculosis who returned to-day from washington where he observed the patients receiving the friedmann cure to-night denounced the remedy as the most gigantic and preposterous fraud of a generation he declared thc experimental cases had j shown practically no results he charged that friedmann has broken his promise to the united states government wherein he engaged to furnish the government a quantity of the serum for experimental purposes that all the government has been able to get is one drop which the doctors cultivated themselves and that friedmann absolutely ignores government letters sent to him â– dr ravenel claims that a newspaper syndicate received 1,000,000 for exploit ing the cure and that dr friedmann had charged exorbitant fees for administering the serum several ranging from 1.000 to 5,000 new york may 12 dr maurice a sturm to-day filed in the supreme court mwo actions against dr friedrich f friedmann in one he asks the court to compel dr friedmann to pay him 10,000 for services rendered him on march 23 1913 and april 29 1913 in the other dr friedmann and his brother dr arthur c h friedmann are named as defendants but no relief is asked from arthur c h friedmann dr sturm alleges in this action that he is entitled to 100,000 from dr friedmann as the result of an agreement with him to be paid 5 per cent of the sum dr friedmann received for the sale of the tuberculosis cure 14,000 more barbers quit watch 12 police heads in crime trust inquiry ! investigation of protection of or ganized criminals by hoyne ' and mayor harrison leads to department officials and poli ticians who shielded the band grand jury is called to break up system | tribute of 300,000 paid by crooks for freedom mayor after warning detectives con fers with prosecutors on evi dence to be submitted to-day twelve high police officers and politicians of some prominence are being watched hy the state's attorney their alleged connection with the farming out of the privilege to com mit crime is under investigation by the grand jury if one of them attempts to leara town he will be arrested these men know that they are under surveil lance and some of them have ar ranged for bondsmen already state's attorney maclay hoyne and mayor carter h harrison united yesterday to dissolve the alli ance which hoyne says he can prove to exist between criminal police and political interests hoyne showed the figures on losses aggregating 280,000 sustained by Chicago citizens at the hands of swindlers hoyne pointed to the fact that these figures represented only those victims who had squealed > and he pointed to the tact that no â– arrest has been recorded in any o'^fr ; the cases and that not a dollar of the 1 money has been recovered mayor asks why mayor harrison brought in his po lic heads and asked them why hoyne showed evidence tbat crim inals in the last three years have paid 300,000 for protection again the police heads faced tl mayor's question hoyne declared that the decks were cleared for the sweeping inves tigation which his staff has reparcd to make into protected vice and crime in Chicago the mayor prom ised every possible kind of assist ance __ the may grand jury is organizefl and to-day that body will take the task of aidine the state's att^ffr^^h uey in his effort to clear the city from the organized vice ring whic has operated at will from the preliminary facts given . to mayor harrison yesterday it be ! came clear that the grand jury will ! be busy to a degree without prece dent i trail leads to police i mr hoyne is to ask for immediate i indictments of men who through po j litical affiliations have been able to ! peddle the privilege of preying upon the city to safe blowers burglars pickpockets swindlers of all kinds and keepers of dives and clearing houses for stolen property with the indictment and arrest of these men the grand jury will be put upon the trail that is expected to lead into the doors of station houses and to the offices of police captains from the dives of the men who are recognized as the heads of the crime | trust to trace the course of graft to i the pockets or bank accounts of : corrupt police officials is one of the hardest tasks that could be set be | fore the grand jury as proven by ! the difficulties district attorney whitman had to overcome in new york before he was able to expose the protection of crime and vice by the grafting police inspectors and captains hoyne sure of evidence but mr hoyne is convinced from the evidence he has already obtained that the crime trust and the police have worked together and he is go ing to try to prove it if the evfr dence is sufficient to justify the re turn of true bills by the grand jury the criminal trials of those indicted will give the state wider opportun ities to drag out the secrets of the - underworld and expose the proflÂ»o tion afforded by the po'iice before taking his evidence before photograph of barney bertsche held in the investigation of chi cago's crime trust taken when he was arraigned in the englewood branch of the municipal court yesterday bertsche became angry in court and sought to cover up his face to avoid photographers 6n 2d page 4th column ll Chicago amd vicinity gen i â– - erally fair tuesday and wednesday ll_lse cooler tuesday moderate north jg x~^Â§?i west shifting to northeast winds w - rr oge of temperature yesterday : l k highest 74 h7lc_-l ? lowest 48 lja *~â€”- - * average 61 i -Â»â– â€” ?\- if you are going away for the summer or part of the summer why not rent that vacant room to the honest young man or young woman who would be glad to get it ? j looking for rooms | there are thousands of people in Chicago looking for rooms many of these are finding just the sort of rooms looking for roomers they want through the want ad section of the exam iner desirable rooms advertised in the examiner bring desirable roomers those who have not yet discovered the quick way the sure way to find good rooms will discover it by read ' ing the want ad section of the â€” m mem i b ? lofiÃŸ_?^s*_____b *-- -' * fttca|||||pmmntr main so o o the examiner's sworn statement of circulation for april average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed through the mails or otherwise to paid subscribers during the month of april daily examiner . 240,127 sunday examiner 609,192